“I didn’t hide how much I interacted with him,” she told The Times. “I don’t really think I did anything wrong. I realize, in hindsight, maybe earlier I should have acted a little more proactively. But, honestly, I don’t think any harm was done.” Bloomberg News said it had found no bias in Ms. Smythe’s…
During the height of the Black freedom movement in 1960s Los Angeles, Maulana Karenga designed a Black holiday, Kwanzaa, that was modeled after West African harvest festivals on the African continent and used Swahili words and phrases. (Swahili is a lingua franca and mother tongue primarily spoken along the eastern coast of Africa.) Every day…
From Cher’s midriff-baring number to Scarlett Johansson’s iconic red Calvin Klein dress, we’re taking a look back at the sexiest looks to sweep the Golden Globes red carpet. View Gallery 38 Photos 1 of 38 Jayne Mansfield The film siren chose a lingerie-inspired gown with balconnette top for the 1958 award’s ceremony. 2 of 38…
Katie buckleitnerGetty Images The first-ever Oscars began in 1929, and almost 100 years later it’s still happening! (Even if the Academy is still snubbing women and diverse nominees, but that’s a whole other issue.) With nine decades worth of red carpets, that means there have been SO many stylish dresses and gowns that have graced…
The night Noah Wunsch met Kelly Connor there were more pants in the room than people. It was February 2015. Mr. Wunsch and Ms. Connor had each traveled from New York to Los Angeles for work. Mr. Wunsch, who had a job in business development for the cool-kid fashion magazine Bullett, had flown west to…
What’s safer to do once most of the population is vaccinated? It should be much safer to move around once your community achieves herd immunity — the point when the virus can’t easily spread because enough people have become vaccinated or have already had the illness. This also helps protect people who can’t get vaccinated…
Good morning. One of the few joys of the pandemic lockdown, as Tejal Rao wrote for The Times last week, is the sharp increase in the number of condiments many of us have put in our refrigerators since March. Tejal listed beautiful examples: “Preserved lemons from a neighbor’s tree. Sludgy garlic pickles in a distressingly…
Lean into facts. As a young child, our son was very literal, like many, though certainly not all, autistic people. When we told him his beloved grandfather who’d died would always live in his heart, he was confused. He asked, “Does that mean he’s buried in my stomach?” To this day, he struggles to understand…
In January 2020, around the time word first began to leak of Covid-19 in China, Telfar Clemens, the queer Liberian-American designer who has been preaching the gospel of inclusivity for 15 years, had a wine-drenched banquet and sleepover for more than 40 of his closest creative collaborators and friends in the Pitti Palace, a former…
China’s fight against the coronavirus was mostly over, but Zhang Xiaochun, a doctor in Wuhan, was sinking into depression, convinced she had failed as a daughter and mother. She agonized over her decision to keep working even after her father fell critically ill. She worried about her young daughter, whom she had frequently left alone…